Opinion

On Aug. 23, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) traveled to a site in King George County, Va., where thousands of gravestones lie along the Potomac River’s shoreline and underwater. The stones marked the burial sites of some 37,000 Black…

Walker Lunn has a different idea about a way to sell newbies on shooting guns.

By her estimate, Aalayah Eastmond has talked about the most traumatic day of her life more than 700 times in the past three years.

One of the success stories in American education has been the turnaround of education in the nation’s capital in the decade since school reform was ushered in. Schools in D.C., once ranked among the worst in the country, are now some of…

From his desk at the FBI’s Washington Field Office, Pete Lapp could see smoke blackening the sky above the Pentagon.

Eighth-graders allegedly carjacking motorists, a 14-year-old allegedly kidnapping passersby at gunpoint, a pregnant woman shot in her car, six gunned down before sundown — leaving three dead and three wounded, including a 3-year-old. Just…

The video that could end D.C. police officer Ryan Sullivan’s career and result in criminal charges against him was made public a month ago.

Four times within just two weeks, D.C. police officers shot someone. The circumstances of each incident are different, and each case must be judged separately to determine if the shooting was justified and if the use of force was…

Just outside Union Station, there’s a moment when tourists getting off the Amtrak Capitol Limited from Sandusky, Ohio, or the Silver Meteor from Savannah, Ga., stop and give a little gasp at the vista.

“No one who wants employment needs to be idle these busy times,” proclaimed an ad that ran in a Washington newspaper under the headline “$75 Per Month is Good Pay for a Young Man or Woman.”

The record is clear: Parole boards don’t work. In the 1970s, more than 70 percent of all releases from prison were based on the discretion of a parole board, but, over time, parole boards became increasingly stingy. They often limit the…

Judy Fisher knows how to help Haiti.

When the pandemic cost me my job and apartment, the owners of The Public Option in Langdon Park took me in.

The investigation into Wednesday morning’s fatal D.C. police shooting of a Black man is in its early stages, and officials have cautioned against jumping to conclusions before all the facts have been established. But what is known — that a…

After writing about Georgetown’s role in the transatlantic slave trade for The Post in July, I came across new material on Georgetown’s connections to slavery and the slave trade. On at least one occasion, enslaved people from Africa were…

In D.C., many apartment residents are anxious inside their homes because of the outrageous behavior of their neighbors. What recourse do residents have when their housing provider is powerless to enforce the community rules, thanks to…

Save IMPACT from superficial racial gap analysis

Among the casualties of long-haul covid are the United States’ transit agencies, whose depleted riderships may take years to return to pre-pandemic levels. Passenger counts remain severely depressed, and the prognosis is for a protracted…

On Aug. 8, D.C. police officers confiscated an illegal gun from a person believed to be selling drugs on the street in a neighborhood experiencing high crime. Soon after the arrest, a 45-second video of the arrest was posted to social…